Tragedy of girl, 15, a ‘victim of bullies’

A TEENAGER killed herself after allegedly changing private schools because she was being bullied.

Tallulah Wilson, 15, was found dead on the tracks at St Pancras station in north London last Sunday after being hit by a train.

The student, who lived with her family in West Hampstead, had posted online messages referring to suicide and recently visited a website featuring self-harm and anorexia.

Tallulah had been a pupil at £11,000-a-year St Margaret’s School in Hampstead.

She enrolled there in September after leaving St Marylebone School, where she had reportedly been bullied.

Yesterday, her grieving family paid tribute to the schoolgirl, known as “Toots”.

A statement released on their behalf said: “Tallulah will always be remembered as a loving daughter and caring sister. She was a clever, cheerful and creative girl with a talent for dance and huge potential. She will be sadly missed by all those who knew her.”

Tallulah will always be remembered as a loving daughter and caring sister. She was a clever, cheerful and creative girl with a talent for dance and huge potential. She will be sadly missed by all those who knew her

A family statement

Friends flooded the internet with messages of sympathy. Ruby Jackson wrote: “You were a great friend to me and I can’t believe it had to end this way.”

Another, Darcey Clark, made references to the alleged bullying at St Marylebone, saying: “RIP Tallulah Wilson. So young and left school cos of bully’s [sic].”

The tragedy happened weeks after 15-year-old Rosie Whitaker died in similar circumstances in Beckenham, Kent, in July.

In a blog, Rosie, a talented ballet dancer, spoke of her struggles with bulimia, her compulsion to slash herself with a razor and plans to kill herself.

Callous strangers responded by telling the underweight girl she was fat and urging her to commit suicide.

Not long before she died herself Tallulah had dedicated a Twitter message to Rosie.

It read: “Why should I stay if no one around me stay for me? It’s not fair. I’m done. I’m done #suicide #goodbye.”

Yesterday Mark Webster, head of St Margaret’s, said: “Tallulah had only been with us for a few weeks but she was already a very popular member of our community, well-liked by literally all who knew her.”

Tallulah’s former head teacher, Elizabeth Phillips, did not respond to allegations that she had been bullied but said counselling was offered to pupils.

Police say the death was not being treated as suspicious.

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